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There was an old beggar
who returned to Lark Rise,
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the place he was raised,
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every autumn.
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How he lost his leg was
a story he often told.
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Old Peg Leg's tales of the Crimean War
seemed as unreal as any dark fairy tale.
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But this time, the old man's recollections
would cause such a controversy.
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His plight became a cause that aroused conflicts
and opinions that stirred up our little community.
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And revealed secrets that no-one
could have of imagined possible.
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- It is all so...sudden.
- I saw the press for sale,
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and it gave me the idea.
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The very same day, I saw that
the book shop was up for rent,
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and I thought, "I cannot turn
away from such an opportunity."
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- It's wonderful. - Candleford is
crying out for a local newspaper,
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and I won't need to sell a great deal.
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The press will cost me next
to nothing. A retiring newsman
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wanted to be sure the old
thing had another life.
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The rent is affordable.
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- And it means I am here.
- Yes.
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- It does. - All I need now is a story
to launch The Candleford Chronicle.
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"I once lost a parcel."
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"Alfie grew a prize potato last year."
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That's as much of a story as
you're likely to find around here.
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I will wager that by the end of the week
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I will have unearthed a sensation
that will have every tongue talking
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from here to Sherston.
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I don't know where you
get such confidence from.
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But you like it, don't you?
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SHE LAUGHS
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Laura. Miss Lane is
wondering where you are.
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Well, she knows where you are,
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but she feels you are here
when you should be there.
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Look at that! Give me a day
and I shall have it working.
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And you, Minnie, can pull
the lever to fire her up.
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I ain't never pulled a lever.
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I shall bake a cake! Oh, and
Daniel, you are invited to tea.
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I'll whistle you a tune as
good as any, spare a penny.
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I'll tell you tales of the
war, will make your skin crack.
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I don't know how he survives,
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hobbling from place to
place, sleeping in ditches.
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Ain't you noticed, Alfie,
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how his tales change
each time he comes around?
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More fantastical with
each telling of 'em.
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It wouldn't surprise me
if he weren't in no war.
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Twister! What a thing to say!
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The man gave his leg for his country.
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Give his leg? He didn't
give it. It was took!
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Spare a something for Old Peg Leg.
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You have four pennies in there already.
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That's as much as I can make
in the fields in half a day.
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Peg Leg put two of
them in there hisself.
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Why did you put money
in your own cap, Peg Leg?
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It gives folks the idea.
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You're crying, "Spare
a penny", loud enough.
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I think they gets the point.
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It stirs their conscience, see.
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Makes people think that if other
folks is giving to an old war horse,
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well, they'd better put
their hand in their pockets.
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There's craft in the begging game.
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And cunning. See the day out,
that's all Old Peg Leg ever asks.
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Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
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A man can call that a life.
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HE LAUGHS
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We are all most impressed, Daniel.
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A young man setting up an exciting
enterprise on our doorstep.
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You are a fine example of what
Samuel Smiles calls "self help".
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I know the book. Any man
can make a success of himself
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with the correct
attitude and application.
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And what a shining example
you are, Mr. Parish. Shining.
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Laura is a lucky girl to have
such an all-conquering man.
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I have been revisiting the book.
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That's a little more than heresy.
Claiming that a man's will is all.
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Have you actually read the book, Thomas?
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To read it would be
to condone it, ma'am.
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A man does not need to peruse
a book to know its contents.
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Is it about helping yourself, mum?
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It is, Minnie. "The crown and
glory of life is character."
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Mr Smiles, I even like his name,
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claims that if we want to better
ourselves then application,
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diligence and cheerful
persistence pays off.
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- Persisterance. - That is all
very well, ma'am, if I may.
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But what about those who
can't better themselves?
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Like Old Peg Leg.
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- Is he back with us?
- Who is Old Peg Leg?
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A veteran, from the Crimean war.
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He lost an eye and part of a
leg fighting before Sebastopol.
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Now the poor old man lumbers from
town to town begging for pennies.
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One leg? One of his legs is
wood and his other leg is...leg.
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- Where is he now? - Oh, Daniel,
you are ever the hunter.
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I saw him heading for Lark Rise.
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Alfie says he saw Old
Peg Leg on the lane.
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I will lay out a bed
down here for the night.
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Old Monday was giving out
leftover milk at the farm today.
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I have a rice pudding
the size of this table.
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I seem to have no appetite.
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I think I'll go over
to the Wagon and Horses.
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I ain't going to ask you, if
that's what you are waiting for.
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Daniel Parish has moved to Candleford.
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He's setting up his own newspaper.
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Is that so bad?
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You get to see another side
of Daniel after a while.
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Perhaps moving to Candleford
tells us something about him. He..
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he's is an enterprising young man.
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He likes it here.
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And he is serious about our Laura.
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I see the Stores is still in darkness.
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Miss Pearl is determinedly in
mourning. It's not so much that
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she is missing her sister, though
undoubtedly she will be grieving.
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It is more that she must
be seen to be bereft.
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Which makes me feel for her even more.
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Perhaps a distraction might
help. And I can no longer afford
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to live at the Golden Lion since
I must now foot my own bills.
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Perhaps Miss Pearl
would welcome a lodger?
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Thomas.
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Ain't you gone home?
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I am going home.
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Now.
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I am setting off.
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Hit by a canon ball, Old Peg Leg was.
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And I laid there on that battlefield,
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a day around the clock
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with not so much as a hand on my brow.
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Laid there, in the blood
and the mud and the madness.
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Most kindly of you, sir.
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Tell 'em what they did
with your leg, Peg Leg.
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Well, after I'd waited there for a
whole lifetime, the surgeon comes.
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Without more ado, he saws
off the shattered portion.
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And then I lies there some
more, half alive, half cracked.
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And I waits and I waits
till the nurses come.
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And they dips the stump
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in a bucket of boiling tar.
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And didn't I holler!
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Sir. Mr?
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Peg Leg.
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Mr Peg Leg, what was your
occupation before the war?
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He was a very gifted carpenter.
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Made his own leg, he did.
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So you were from hereabouts?
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That's why he keeps coming
back, see. With his tales.
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Mr Peg Leg, did you receive
any kind of a pension
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when you were invalided out of the army?
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All I was give was eight
pence a week for 18 months.
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- And then it stops. - But don't you
feel that is a great injustice?
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The world is made of injustices, sir.
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Especially to the likes of
old folks who makes no fuss
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for their own needs.
However great they are.
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Mr Parish, you seem mighty curious
about Peg Leg's circumstances.
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It is my nature to be
curious. And my profession.
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We hear your profession has brought you
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to open a newspaper in Candleford.
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Would you like to visit my premises?
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I would very much like to
show you around, Mr Timmins.
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Perhaps tomorrow?
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Mr Peg Leg, what do you feel
about your current conditions?
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Conditions would be pleasing,
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bettered, sir if you was to spare
a few pennies for an old war horse.
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Perhaps another beer?
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See the day out, that's
all Old Peg Leg ever asks.
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Come on, boys, all together now.
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Fathom the bowl!
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# Oh, fathom the bowl,
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# Give me the punch
lane, oh, fathom the bowl
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# Come on, ye bold heroes,
give here to my song... #
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"The common life, with
its cares and duties,
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"provides the true worker with
abundant scope for self-improvement.
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"They who are most persistent,
and work in the truest spirit,
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"will usually be the most successful."
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SHE SNORES
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HE MUMBLES TO HIMSELF
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- We can't just leave him like this.
- Who said we would?
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Alfie?
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He's been coming here regular,
and he ain't never slept
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in a Lark Rise ditch as
long as I've known him.
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Be your own friend,
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and see...see the day's end.
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He ain't been eating. I can see it.
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I have some oats for the morning.
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He looks worse than last
time, I'm sure of it.
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Course he does. He looks
worse every time he turns up.
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I could take him in our cottage.
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Put him up for a good while if
needs be, till he's on the mend.
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He won't have it. One
night is all. We've tried.
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I can't bear to see him like this.
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DOOR BELL
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Laura, are you going over
to Lark Rise this morning?
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Do you want to walk with me?
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I want to ask you to do me a favour.
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I am told that Peg Leg will
move on after only one night.
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- He never settles.
- You must convince him to stay.
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For a while. I heard his story
last night in the Wagon and Horses.
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Laura, the London newspapers
create a public clamour
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by taking up a cause.
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A cause? Peg Leg?
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Miss Lane, let me ask you,
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as a potential buyer of my newspaper,
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what are your feelings about a war
hero cast into such a vagrant life?
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It is a disgrace.
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We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
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If we cannot provide for
those who serve our country,
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then what kind of nation are we?
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What Kind Of Nation Are We?
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I have my headline.
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We must detain him here so I
can speak with him some more,
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and report on his plight.
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Perhaps Peg Leg might not
wish to be made a sensation.
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Daniel, these London newspapers,
do they help people like Peg Leg?
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Greatly. When the public
conscience and anger are stirred,
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then the people in power soon listen.
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Then I shall be glad to
be part of your efforts.
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What is it that you
seek to achieve, Daniel?
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Justice...for an old man.
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Who could object to that?
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You sure you can spare this,
Emma? You have children to feed.
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My little 'uns have enough
flesh on their bones.
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You look like a man who needs
a meal before he perishes.
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Arthur, won't you stay one more night?
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I'll bank up the fire and heat up
some water, you can have a bath.
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Baths, is it?
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Why would a man want to take off his
clothes when he has them on so cosy?
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THEY CHUCKLE
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DOOR RATTLES
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Peg Leg.
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Mr Arthur.
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I have a friend who wishes
to help you. A journalist.
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He's asked me to persuade
you to remain in Lark Rise
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until he can write a story about you,
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so he can raise up public
opinion on your behalf.
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What a splendid idea!
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It ain't right you live by
the begging bowl, Arthur,
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depending on folks'
kindness for scraps of food.
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Peg Leg has a good life.
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No, I don't want no trouble in my name.
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A full belly and a road to travel,
what more can a man ask for?
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Surely you are owed a bit of
peace and comfort in your old age?
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Folks will want to help, to
put right such an unfairness.
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Arthur, every time you leave,
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I fear I will watch you walk
down that lane for the last time.
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I am left feeling that
I have not done enough.
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Can you not stay?
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A day or two is all. Stay for
me, so I won't feel so bad.
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I've made some pea soup.
You love my pea soup.
241
00:15:42,215 --> 00:15:44,940
There won't be no bath, will there?
242
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No bath. I promise.
243
00:15:52,924 --> 00:15:57,113
I'm no mechanic, but I am enjoying getting
my hands dirty with a little oil and ink.
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- Daniel...
- You think me impulsive to do such a thing.
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A newspaper in Candleford.
246
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Supposing people don't
buy what you have to say?
247
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I do feel reckless,
but I'm full of faith.
248
00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:10,936
It's as though it doesn't
matter if I succeed.
249
00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:13,615
All that counts is the
thrill of the challenge.
250
00:16:13,650 --> 00:16:16,225
That's why you are here,
is it? The challenge?
251
00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:19,820
I ain't so sure that's what
brought Daniel Parish to Candleford.
252
00:16:19,855 --> 00:16:21,505
Mr Timmins, in truth, I...
253
00:16:21,540 --> 00:16:25,185
Gentlemen, if I may
intrude. I have a question.
254
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Purely in the spirit of enlightening
conversation, you understand.
255
00:16:29,255 --> 00:16:32,277
Mr Parish, you are little more than 20
256
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and already a self-made entrepreneur.
257
00:16:35,335 --> 00:16:36,625
And you, Robert Timmins,
258
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you are a master of your
craft, renowned for it.
259
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What are the qualities
that lift men like you
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out of the throng of common toilers?
261
00:16:48,855 --> 00:16:51,265
A little daring, perhaps?
262
00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:56,040
If you love what you do,
you give yourself to it.
263
00:16:56,075 --> 00:17:00,780
That's what I thought.
Courage and determination"
264
00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:10,380
I will have to fill my newspaper
with local announcements,
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wedding banns, christenings,
poetry competitions.
266
00:17:13,255 --> 00:17:15,300
But I am determined to tell big stories,
267
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things that matter, like Peg Leg.
268
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I will not stop until he has a place to
live and a pension to properly feed him.
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I don't doubt that will
sell several copies for you.
270
00:17:24,335 --> 00:17:26,077
Peg Leg doesn't matter to you.
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You met the man for one evening.
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What matters to you is
the success of your paper.
273
00:17:30,815 --> 00:17:33,117
Peg Leg does not need me to know him.
274
00:17:33,152 --> 00:17:35,385
Nor even to even care much for him.
275
00:17:35,420 --> 00:17:38,660
He needs me to have fire in
my belly for what I write.
276
00:17:38,695 --> 00:17:42,017
Your kindness in taking
him in, feeding him,
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00:17:42,052 --> 00:17:45,340
has that made a real
difference to his plight?
278
00:17:45,375 --> 00:17:48,105
No. No, it hasn't.
279
00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:50,680
I could change his life...
280
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if I do my job properly.
281
00:17:53,220 --> 00:17:56,060
I will tell people for miles
around of this man's predicament.
282
00:17:56,095 --> 00:17:58,945
I will shake them out
of their indifference.
283
00:17:58,980 --> 00:18:02,180
Isn't that better than a bed for
the night and a little friendship?
284
00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:06,625
It is.
285
00:18:06,660 --> 00:18:08,980
And if I can help you in any way...
286
00:18:09,015 --> 00:18:11,300
Can you recommend a sign-maker?
287
00:18:11,335 --> 00:18:13,637
I can do better than that.
288
00:18:13,672 --> 00:18:15,940
HE PLAYS THE PENNY WHISTLE
289
00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:35,220
I've put some thyme in the bread
for us to have with the pea soup.
290
00:18:43,260 --> 00:18:47,920
Ma? Why are you fond of Old
Peg Leg like your own pa?
291
00:18:47,955 --> 00:18:52,580
Well, when I was a girl, Peg
Leg would come up the lane,
292
00:18:52,615 --> 00:18:55,665
and the other children
would shout after him,
293
00:18:55,700 --> 00:19:01,940
"Dot and carry one," because
of the sound he made walking.
294
00:19:01,975 --> 00:19:04,225
I couldn't bear the cruelty of it.
295
00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:09,380
So, when I was old
enough, had my own home,
296
00:19:09,415 --> 00:19:10,865
I took him in.
297
00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,500
"Dot and carry one"?
298
00:19:20,740 --> 00:19:25,020
There's something suspicious
about a man who won't stay still.
299
00:19:25,055 --> 00:19:28,557
It's like he don't
want no-one to know him.
300
00:19:28,592 --> 00:19:32,060
Twister, you do have
a sour mind sometimes.
301
00:19:32,095 --> 00:19:35,700
Has anyone ever seen under that patch?
302
00:19:35,735 --> 00:19:37,380
He might have more eyes than I do.
303
00:19:37,415 --> 00:19:38,945
Twister Turrell,
304
00:19:38,980 --> 00:19:43,520
I do believe that you are no more
than jealous of an old war hero.
305
00:19:43,555 --> 00:19:48,060
All these years you've known
me, and you can say such a thing?
306
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Believe such a thing?
307
00:19:50,575 --> 00:19:52,620
Well...
308
00:19:54,260 --> 00:19:57,380
Perhaps I'll show you.
309
00:19:57,415 --> 00:19:59,580
Show you all.
310
00:20:06,420 --> 00:20:09,900
Oh, Minnie, I can't find my
book anywhere. Have you moved it?
311
00:20:09,935 --> 00:20:13,137
No, mum, I ain't seen no book
nowhere, so I ain't moved it.
312
00:20:13,172 --> 00:20:16,340
- And anyway, what book was it?
- Self-Help, Samuel Smiles.
313
00:20:16,375 --> 00:20:18,740
Oh, I seen that one. It
was lying right there.
314
00:20:18,775 --> 00:20:21,225
Thomas, have you moved my book?
315
00:20:21,260 --> 00:20:24,420
Oh, is that the bell.
Did I hear the bell?
316
00:20:24,455 --> 00:20:26,380
A man must be conscientious, ma'am.
317
00:20:30,580 --> 00:20:32,825
Spare a coin for Old Peg Leg.
318
00:20:32,860 --> 00:20:37,100
Will whistle you a tune
good as any, spare a penny.
319
00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:49,460
Spare a few coins for an old
man ruined with rheumatism.
320
00:20:50,980 --> 00:20:53,660
HE PICKS OUT A TUNE: "Camptown Races"
321
00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,420
PEG LEG PLAYS A DIFFERENT TUNE
322
00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:18,020
A man don't need a comely tune when
he has the sympathy of being legless.
323
00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:24,780
HE CONTINUES TO STRUM
324
00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:38,985
Now I remember.
325
00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:43,060
They didn't call you Peg
Leg back then, did they?
326
00:21:53,060 --> 00:21:56,500
- Are you sure you can afford this, Daniel?
- It's an occasion.
327
00:21:56,535 --> 00:21:58,905
A double occasion.
328
00:21:58,940 --> 00:22:02,220
I have always felt it important
to mark significant moments.
329
00:22:02,255 --> 00:22:04,505
I am the proprietor of my own newspaper.
330
00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:07,340
If I cannot celebrate, then
what kind of a man am I?
331
00:22:07,375 --> 00:22:11,900
You're right. It's such
a lovely thing to do.
332
00:22:11,935 --> 00:22:14,820
You said it was a double occasion?
333
00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:16,897
Yes.
334
00:22:16,932 --> 00:22:18,940
Us.
335
00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:22,185
What are you doing?
336
00:22:22,220 --> 00:22:26,460
To mark the occasion of me
coming to live in Candleford.
337
00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:31,265
A brooch.
338
00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:34,860
- It's beautiful.
- It was my grandmother's.
339
00:22:36,380 --> 00:22:40,425
- Daniel, I can't accept it.
- Why?
340
00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:44,220
I'm sorry, Daniel. Perhaps I should go.
341
00:22:44,255 --> 00:22:47,105
Why would you say such a thing?
342
00:22:47,140 --> 00:22:51,780
I am only hurting you, sitting
here, refusing your gift. I'm sorry.
343
00:23:03,980 --> 00:23:08,380
- Thomas, has Miss Lane been chiding you?
- She has not, Minnie.
344
00:23:08,415 --> 00:23:10,457
I give Miss Lane no cause to chide.
345
00:23:10,492 --> 00:23:12,465
But you are here again in the evening
346
00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,608
and you are working like the
most working man there ever was.
347
00:23:15,202 --> 00:23:20,021
Minnie, would you say
that I was diligent?
348
00:23:21,895 --> 00:23:22,507
Yes.
349
00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:24,985
Industrious? Attentive?
350
00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:29,860
- Yes.
- Persistent? Do I work in a true spirit?
351
00:23:29,895 --> 00:23:31,225
Yes.
352
00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:32,620
DOOR OPENS
353
00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:40,300
Thomas, what is "persisterance"?
354
00:23:40,335 --> 00:23:43,260
And "indus..."
355
00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:45,860
"Attentive"?
356
00:23:49,540 --> 00:23:53,460
CHILDREN: Dot and carry
one! Dot and carry one!
357
00:23:54,980 --> 00:23:59,180
You think I can't catch you?
358
00:23:59,215 --> 00:24:01,177
Well... Oh...
359
00:24:01,212 --> 00:24:03,140
I'll get you...
360
00:24:04,380 --> 00:24:10,580
He'll grab you when you least
expect it. Old Peg Leg never forgets.
361
00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:48,020
How's a man like you come to have
such a fine bottle of brandy, Arthur?
362
00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:52,900
Found it on the lane.
363
00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:59,180
I'll have a word with those children.
364
00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:03,060
We was all children.
365
00:25:03,095 --> 00:25:04,945
Once.
366
00:25:04,980 --> 00:25:06,660
In another life.
367
00:25:10,620 --> 00:25:12,980
KNOCK ON DOOR
368
00:25:17,780 --> 00:25:21,225
It's no use burying your
head in the pillow, Laura.
369
00:25:21,260 --> 00:25:25,380
I can tell when you come home distressed
from the way you close the back door.
370
00:25:25,415 --> 00:25:29,597
Ma'am, please... I don't want to talk.
371
00:25:31,749 --> 00:25:33,420
Then something really is the matter.
372
00:25:37,509 --> 00:25:39,812
You always share your burdens, Laura.
373
00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:47,745
Ma'am...
374
00:25:47,780 --> 00:25:52,180
I was so thrilled that
Daniel had come to Candleford.
375
00:25:52,215 --> 00:25:54,780
So proud of what he is doing.
376
00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:58,940
I was so looking forward to...
377
00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,020
Daniel was so kind to me.
378
00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:08,305
He gave me the most lovely gift,
379
00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:11,660
a beautiful brooch in a beautiful box.
380
00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:16,020
I refused it.
381
00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:19,380
Why would you do such a thing?
382
00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:22,300
I don't know why.
383
00:26:24,140 --> 00:26:27,140
Perhaps tomorrow you could accept it?
384
00:26:27,175 --> 00:26:30,140
It is never too late
to put things right.
385
00:26:30,175 --> 00:26:33,620
No, ma'am. I don't want his gift.
386
00:26:33,655 --> 00:26:35,780
Laura... Please.
387
00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:42,060
Ma'am, I cannot talk about this
any more. I've such a headache.
388
00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:54,900
Margaret, I lack...
389
00:26:54,935 --> 00:26:56,505
Lack?
390
00:26:56,540 --> 00:26:59,080
I lack success.
391
00:26:59,115 --> 00:27:01,620
I lack thrust!
392
00:27:04,220 --> 00:27:07,060
Miss Lane has the post
office, and the Forge.
393
00:27:07,095 --> 00:27:09,145
Both of which she inherited.
394
00:27:09,180 --> 00:27:12,500
Daniel Parish is little more than
a boy, he has his own business.
395
00:27:12,535 --> 00:27:15,060
It can not yet be called a success.
396
00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:18,900
Misses Pratt have the Stores.
397
00:27:18,935 --> 00:27:21,585
Even Robert Timmins
398
00:27:21,620 --> 00:27:25,185
is his own master and an artist.
399
00:27:25,220 --> 00:27:30,180
Has a reputation and widespread respect.
400
00:27:31,260 --> 00:27:32,396
What do I have?
401
00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:38,700
Postal bag, female employer
and a rod upon my back.
402
00:27:38,735 --> 00:27:40,905
Hardly a rod, Thomas.
403
00:27:40,940 --> 00:27:42,780
It's a metaphorical rod, Margaret.
404
00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:47,900
Thomas, what has brought
such thoughts upon you?
405
00:27:47,935 --> 00:27:51,500
I look at my "achievements",
406
00:27:53,220 --> 00:27:56,420
and what is the sum of
a lifetime's efforts?
407
00:27:58,740 --> 00:28:01,260
This!
408
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,240
But Thomas,
409
00:28:05,275 --> 00:28:07,027
we have us.
410
00:28:07,062 --> 00:28:08,780
Don't we?
411
00:28:12,380 --> 00:28:14,480
Ohh.
412
00:28:14,515 --> 00:28:16,580
Oh...
413
00:28:18,980 --> 00:28:24,985
Mum, why did Daniel give Laura
something that was his grandma's?
414
00:28:25,020 --> 00:28:29,020
Because, I suppose, it was a sign
to her of how much she means to him.
415
00:28:30,540 --> 00:28:35,100
Mum, if people help themselves,
like the book says we have to,
416
00:28:35,135 --> 00:28:37,425
do all our dreams come true?
417
00:28:37,460 --> 00:28:41,945
Something like that, yes,
according to Mr Smiles.
418
00:28:41,980 --> 00:28:46,280
Mum, do you suppose Laura will
take the brooch from Daniel?
419
00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:50,687
- Perhaps, yes, when she is ready.
- Because she loves him?
420
00:28:50,722 --> 00:28:54,911
- Because she loves him.
- Mum, if someone wants something,
421
00:28:54,946 --> 00:28:59,100
then it is up to you to
have persisterance, isn't it?
422
00:28:59,135 --> 00:29:01,985
Yes, persistence.
423
00:29:02,020 --> 00:29:05,140
- Do you have your eyes on the
post office, Minnie? - Oh no, mum.
424
00:29:05,175 --> 00:29:08,620
I am too young. Yet. Perhaps later.
425
00:29:11,180 --> 00:29:13,660
Mum, love is beautiful, isn't it?
426
00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:18,300
I think it is meant to be, yes.
427
00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:25,170
We are introducing a
new offer today, ladies.
428
00:29:25,170 --> 00:29:28,581
Buy ten penny stamps for nine pence.
Do tell your friends and neighbours.
429
00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:42,500
..And when you returned to England
and were released from the hospital,
430
00:29:42,535 --> 00:29:44,780
no possibility of work?
431
00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:53,220
Well, they did say I might
learn blacksmith work,
432
00:29:53,255 --> 00:29:56,697
since that's mostly arm labour.
433
00:29:56,732 --> 00:30:00,140
That is, if I could stand at all.
434
00:30:00,175 --> 00:30:02,225
THEY LAUGH
435
00:30:04,021 --> 00:30:06,561
'The British Government
has behaved disgracefully
436
00:30:06,561 --> 00:30:08,595
'when it comes to the care
of our brave war veterans.
437
00:30:08,928 --> 00:30:12,866
'Men like Mr Arthur Myhill, who
lost a leg fighting in Sebastopol,
438
00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:14,636
'who had his eye blown out
439
00:30:14,636 --> 00:30:16,627
'in the service of this
great country of ours.
440
00:30:16,662 --> 00:30:19,759
'Why does this lion-hearted man
trudge the lanes of Oxfordshire
441
00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:23,040
'begging for his next meal, never
knowing where he may lay his head?
442
00:30:24,536 --> 00:30:27,407
'Because he is not entitled to a
pension for his services to us all.
443
00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:35,020
'His courage has been spurned,
ignored, mocked by indifference.
444
00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:41,460
'Who is responsible for this scandal?
445
00:30:41,495 --> 00:30:43,517
'You are.
446
00:30:43,552 --> 00:30:45,505
'We all are.'
447
00:30:45,540 --> 00:30:48,385
"If we do not care
enough to raise our voices
448
00:30:48,420 --> 00:30:52,105
"in anger and rejection
of this terrible injustice,
449
00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:56,100
"if we do not demand rightful
provision for men like Arthur Myhill,
450
00:30:56,135 --> 00:30:58,825
"then we can all hang
our heads in shame."
451
00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:03,225
"The Candleford Chronicle
shall start the call.
452
00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:06,460
"Let every fair-hearted man
in this fair-hearted country
453
00:31:06,495 --> 00:31:09,665
"demand justice for Old Peg Leg.
454
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,380
"Write to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, care of the Chronicle.
455
00:31:13,415 --> 00:31:15,065
"Write today.
456
00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:18,460
"Demand hope for Old Peg Leg!"
457
00:31:20,660 --> 00:31:22,585
That's fine writing, well enough.
458
00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:24,705
But I never asked to be in no papers.
459
00:31:24,740 --> 00:31:28,340
Arthur, if this can bring
in a few shillings regular,
460
00:31:28,375 --> 00:31:28,986
a place for you to live.
461
00:31:28,986 --> 00:31:30,663
That has to be proper
for a man who has giv...
462
00:31:30,663 --> 00:31:33,276
I never asked for no place to live.
463
00:31:33,276 --> 00:31:35,052
Look at how many people are responding.
464
00:31:35,087 --> 00:31:39,738
So many decent people can see what the
moral obligation of our Government is.
465
00:31:39,782 --> 00:31:44,406
And this is just the start of it. They
threw away your life like an old rag.
466
00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:47,100
And how many more like
you didn't make it home?
467
00:31:48,620 --> 00:31:51,460
What is this war for? For you?
468
00:31:51,495 --> 00:31:52,985
For my children?
469
00:31:53,020 --> 00:31:57,260
For any man in here? Do we
share their grand designs?
470
00:31:57,295 --> 00:32:01,437
Will Sebastopol feed
my family? Your family?
471
00:32:01,472 --> 00:32:05,580
Your life, Arthur, before
you left. A carpenter,
472
00:32:05,615 --> 00:32:07,505
making homes for folks to live in.
473
00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:12,380
And what a fine hand you had.
Known for the twinkle in your eyes.
474
00:32:12,415 --> 00:32:16,837
There wasn't a girl
around here who was safe.
475
00:32:16,872 --> 00:32:20,966
Eileen Middleton. You
would have married her.
476
00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:25,060
Brought your own
children into this world.
477
00:32:25,095 --> 00:32:27,025
Same as we have, all of us.
478
00:32:27,060 --> 00:32:30,500
What took that away from you?
Some cannonball did this to you?
479
00:32:30,535 --> 00:32:32,065
No.
480
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,745
Men in suits did this to you.
481
00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:38,705
Men who sit in panelled
rooms and decide our lives.
482
00:32:39,018 --> 00:32:42,302
Rich men, and sons of rich men.
483
00:32:43,340 --> 00:32:47,460
Powerful men. Ask them,
do their sons go to war?
484
00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:54,860
Your name, Arthur, your plight,
could point a finger at these men.
485
00:32:54,895 --> 00:32:59,060
Now, isn't that a cause worth
putting your shoulder behind?
486
00:32:59,095 --> 00:33:00,785
Isn't that what you want, Arthur?
487
00:33:00,820 --> 00:33:04,500
Finally, you're asking me what I want.
488
00:33:04,535 --> 00:33:07,225
Well, I'll tell you.
489
00:33:07,260 --> 00:33:11,905
A few pennies so's I can be on my way.
490
00:33:11,940 --> 00:33:17,540
A beer, and another beer
to make the evening shine.
491
00:33:17,575 --> 00:33:21,580
Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
492
00:33:21,615 --> 00:33:24,660
Well, come on, boys. Come on!
493
00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:31,180
HE PLAYS A TUNE ON HIS
WHISTLE, SOME SING RELUCTANTLY
494
00:33:31,215 --> 00:33:34,660
Sing, boys, come on!
495
00:33:34,695 --> 00:33:37,020
THEY SING
496
00:33:59,069 --> 00:34:04,535
Daniel, Peg Leg might rail against
the offer of a settled life,
497
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:07,707
but there was no joy in that music.
498
00:34:08,575 --> 00:34:10,825
The man is tormented.
499
00:34:10,860 --> 00:34:12,665
He needs hope, that is all.
500
00:34:12,700 --> 00:34:18,220
True hope. Daniel, there
is a bigger cause here.
501
00:34:18,255 --> 00:34:21,425
More than homes for men like Arthur.
502
00:34:21,460 --> 00:34:25,940
If you were to name the reason
why this kind of thing happens.
503
00:34:25,975 --> 00:34:28,865
And hear me out.
504
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,145
Imagine the stir that that would cause
505
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:35,220
if you were able to do that
in The London Illustrated News.
506
00:34:35,255 --> 00:34:36,740
They print pictures.
507
00:34:36,775 --> 00:34:38,260
Photographs.
508
00:34:39,260 --> 00:34:43,237
Imagine it. Peg Leg he is
the nugget that shows it all.
509
00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:48,020
It is the sight of him that
makes visible the injustice of it.
510
00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:51,700
I could send them a telegram.
511
00:35:00,940 --> 00:35:05,660
Who would have thought Old Peg
Leg would become a political cause?
512
00:35:05,695 --> 00:35:10,380
You'll be needing to dust down
your expanding plank, our Robert.
513
00:35:10,415 --> 00:35:12,385
It matters, Em.
514
00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:15,700
That man, his story,
could make a difference.
515
00:35:15,735 --> 00:35:17,585
I know it matters.
516
00:35:17,620 --> 00:35:21,700
And it cheers my heart
to see you so fired up.
517
00:35:21,735 --> 00:35:23,980
OLD PEG GIVES OUT A RASPING COUGH
518
00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:40,060
HE COUGHS AND MUMBLES
519
00:36:31,229 --> 00:36:35,085
You have found my book
for me, Thomas. Thank you.
520
00:36:35,939 --> 00:36:41,203
It was about, so I decided to glance
through a few pages of it, ma'am.
521
00:36:42,076 --> 00:36:43,644
And what did you make of it?
522
00:36:43,820 --> 00:36:45,744
There is only one book a
man can live by, Miss Lane.
523
00:36:45,810 --> 00:36:50,751
Though this does have
some merits, in places.
524
00:36:50,786 --> 00:36:53,305
It is well meant, I suppose.
525
00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:57,145
People suppose the
book is about success.
526
00:36:57,180 --> 00:37:01,020
But my favourite chapter
is the one on character.
527
00:37:01,055 --> 00:37:02,985
"That which dignifies a country
528
00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:08,580
"is not an aristocracy of blood,
it is an aristocracy of character."
529
00:37:08,615 --> 00:37:12,420
But there is an impressive
list of illustrious commoners,
530
00:37:12,455 --> 00:37:15,380
raised themselves from
humble to elevated position
531
00:37:15,415 --> 00:37:18,516
by the power of
application and industry.
532
00:37:20,035 --> 00:37:25,257
A lowly postman might be
encouraged by such a thought.
533
00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:29,031
Thomas, I had a rather strange encounter
534
00:37:29,031 --> 00:37:30,547
in the post office this morning.
535
00:37:30,860 --> 00:37:34,220
Several of our customers
were asking for discounts.
536
00:37:34,255 --> 00:37:35,625
Ah.
537
00:37:35,660 --> 00:37:39,180
They said that you had informed
them that such a thing was possible.
538
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:43,545
I was merely showing
initiative, Miss Lane.
539
00:37:43,580 --> 00:37:47,620
- An ambitious man must live on his
toes. - Initiative with my income, Thomas.
540
00:37:47,655 --> 00:37:52,460
Ah... Ah. Well, perhaps
I overstepped myself.
541
00:37:52,495 --> 00:37:54,665
You did indeed.
542
00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:56,940
I trust it will not happen again.
543
00:37:58,700 --> 00:37:59,745
Mmm!
544
00:37:59,780 --> 00:38:01,425
There's porridge.
545
00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:03,985
There's flavoursome porridge
546
00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:07,505
and then there's Emma Timmins' porridge.
547
00:38:07,540 --> 00:38:10,620
Are you sure you can spare
it, Emma? I'd hate to think
548
00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:13,700
that I was taking out of the
mouths of the little 'uns.
549
00:38:13,735 --> 00:38:16,260
You eat up, Arthur. We
have battles to fight.
550
00:38:16,295 --> 00:38:17,865
I'll go on down the lane,
551
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:21,540
see if there's a few extra
pennies to get me on my way.
552
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:27,860
Perhaps, before I go, I might come back,
553
00:38:27,895 --> 00:38:29,785
have a bowl of your pea soup?
554
00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:33,740
We will always share whatever
we have with those who need it.
555
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:42,105
- Thomas?
- Margaret.
556
00:38:42,140 --> 00:38:45,905
James Dowland built Villas.
557
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:49,505
Daniel Parish opened a newspaper.
558
00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:55,780
I am sitting here contemplating
what Thomas Brown might do.
559
00:39:19,540 --> 00:39:21,140
Thomas...
560
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,020
I am an empty vessel, Margaret.
561
00:39:25,055 --> 00:39:27,705
Inspiration was there none.
562
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:32,820
It seems that I am doomed to
be no more than a common toiler.
563
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:43,020
The Illustrated London News
have picked up on my story.
564
00:39:43,055 --> 00:39:45,465
They are sending a
photographer from Oxford
565
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,727
to take a picture of Peg
for tomorrow's edition.
566
00:39:48,229 --> 00:39:50,950
- I am to have him ready
by midday. - Well...
567
00:39:51,712 --> 00:39:54,145
You come to our little
spot in the wilderness
568
00:39:54,180 --> 00:39:57,100
and before you know it, you
are conquering the world.
569
00:40:05,580 --> 00:40:09,105
- Money?
- Notes.
570
00:40:09,140 --> 00:40:12,785
- Lots of them.
- How?
571
00:40:12,820 --> 00:40:15,905
He is Poor Old Peg Leg.
572
00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:18,945
How did he lay his hands on so much?
573
00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:21,865
Every family in the hamlet
would work to the bone
574
00:40:21,865 --> 00:40:23,369
for half that amount.
575
00:40:24,020 --> 00:40:26,020
But why does he live as he does if...?
576
00:40:26,055 --> 00:40:27,465
He isn't the man we thought.
577
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:31,900
He comes to our home, eats our porridge,
578
00:40:31,935 --> 00:40:33,905
plays the pauper.
579
00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:37,800
- What will you do, Ma?
- It is enough to break me.
580
00:40:37,835 --> 00:40:41,660
Are we such fools to let
him take our kindness?
581
00:40:41,695 --> 00:40:44,065
Not fools.
582
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:48,380
Then why does it make me
feel so? Why does it hurt so?
583
00:40:48,415 --> 00:40:52,660
He has betrayed you time and time again.
584
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:56,940
I don't know what I will do.
585
00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:12,980
Peg Leg. How are you today?
586
00:41:13,015 --> 00:41:15,140
Thomas?
587
00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:19,940
Thomas?
588
00:41:35,340 --> 00:41:37,545
A photograph fella, coming all the way
589
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:40,491
from one of them London newspapers,
taking a picture of Peg Leg.
590
00:41:40,505 --> 00:41:43,820
- For the paper. A picture.
- Is that so?
591
00:41:43,855 --> 00:41:45,777
A picture of a poor man.
592
00:41:45,812 --> 00:41:47,700
A beggar and a war hero.
593
00:41:47,735 --> 00:41:49,265
Is that so?
594
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:51,625
They didn't call him Peg
Leg when he was a boy.
595
00:41:51,660 --> 00:41:54,059
I used to put my hat on the
ground outside the ale house,
596
00:41:54,059 --> 00:41:56,631
sing a few songs, have a few drinks
597
00:41:57,408 --> 00:41:59,739
and there'd be coins gone from my hat.
598
00:42:00,868 --> 00:42:02,761
Penny Pincher, that's
what they used to call him.
599
00:42:30,739 --> 00:42:33,473
If you don't talk to him,
tell him what you know,
600
00:42:34,430 --> 00:42:37,171
he'll go off down the
lane, he'll be back again.
601
00:42:38,270 --> 00:42:39,285
What then, Emma?
602
00:42:43,580 --> 00:42:47,980
Look at him there. The Wood Leg Hero.
603
00:42:48,015 --> 00:42:50,677
See their eyes, Alfie.
604
00:42:50,712 --> 00:42:53,340
See how they admire him.
605
00:42:53,375 --> 00:42:55,945
He ain't no pauper.
606
00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:59,500
He has more money than you
or I could ever hope for.
607
00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:02,300
Twister, how can you say such a thing?
608
00:43:02,335 --> 00:43:05,260
Ask Emma Timmins.
609
00:43:05,295 --> 00:43:07,097
She knows.
610
00:43:07,132 --> 00:43:08,865
Knows what?
611
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:12,900
This will undermine everything. The
Chronicle will be ruined by this.
612
00:43:12,935 --> 00:43:14,340
Can't you stop them?
613
00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:20,300
He owes me nothing.
614
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:26,340
I gave to him freely. It's none
of my business if he has money.
615
00:43:30,198 --> 00:43:33,425
Oh... I have to talk to Daniel.
616
00:43:41,518 --> 00:43:44,373
Wh... What's to be done?
I must do something.
617
00:43:44,932 --> 00:43:49,895
Daniel, I am sorry. It was
me pushed you into this.
618
00:43:50,415 --> 00:43:53,105
- What are we to do, Pa?
- We have no choice.
619
00:43:53,140 --> 00:43:56,620
No-one wants to do it, but we
must expose the lie of the man.
620
00:43:56,655 --> 00:43:58,905
Perhaps, but...
621
00:43:58,940 --> 00:44:02,340
surely what truly matters
here is the greater cause.
622
00:44:02,375 --> 00:44:05,345
That is still worthwhile.
623
00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:09,625
War veterans without
a home or a pension.
624
00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:12,580
If the story in the London papers
can still achieve some good,
625
00:44:12,615 --> 00:44:15,420
it seems to me that the only thing to do
626
00:44:15,455 --> 00:44:17,637
is to do nothing.
627
00:44:17,672 --> 00:44:19,785
You're right.
628
00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:22,145
But to keep such a secret...
629
00:44:22,180 --> 00:44:24,385
I don't like how it makes me feel.
630
00:44:24,420 --> 00:44:28,060
Daniel Parish, disturbed
by a moral quandary?
631
00:44:28,095 --> 00:44:31,345
You sound to me like a man of character.
632
00:44:31,380 --> 00:44:36,580
- I can't believe it.
- It's true. Look at him there.
633
00:44:38,100 --> 00:44:39,665
It ain't right.
634
00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:42,100
Alfie, I have a gift for you.
635
00:44:42,135 --> 00:44:44,465
Go on, open it. Open it now.
636
00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:47,660
Minnie, I am grateful but I
need you to wait just one moment.
637
00:44:47,695 --> 00:44:49,620
Folks should know what he's made of.
638
00:44:49,655 --> 00:44:52,980
It's a hairpin. Do you like it?
639
00:44:53,015 --> 00:44:55,145
Someone should tell them!
640
00:44:55,180 --> 00:44:58,740
Twister, listen to me... It was my
grandma's. It's all I have of hers.
641
00:44:58,775 --> 00:45:01,500
Minnie, I'm grateful, but...
642
00:45:01,535 --> 00:45:02,905
Twister, hold hard!
643
00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:05,145
The man ain't nothing but a chiseller.
644
00:45:05,180 --> 00:45:08,465
Twister, let him have
his money and his secrets.
645
00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:13,420
Would you swap places with him?
Would you want to carry his burden?
646
00:45:13,455 --> 00:45:15,557
Look at him.
647
00:45:15,592 --> 00:45:17,625
He's tormented.
648
00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:20,980
He ain't getting away with nothing.
649
00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:32,105
I never thought I'd see the day
650
00:45:32,140 --> 00:45:35,425
when they was taking
pictures of Old Peg Leg.
651
00:45:35,460 --> 00:45:40,580
Arthur, I came downstairs in
the night to fix your blankets.
652
00:45:40,615 --> 00:45:42,020
I saw the money.
653
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:45,740
Your money.
654
00:45:47,460 --> 00:45:51,740
It's not for me to know how you
came upon that kind of money.
655
00:45:51,775 --> 00:45:54,700
Peg Leg ain't no thief.
656
00:45:55,980 --> 00:45:59,560
- Is that what you think of me?
- You beg.
657
00:45:59,595 --> 00:46:03,140
It pains you to travel a few yards.
658
00:46:03,175 --> 00:46:05,065
You beg, and yet...
659
00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:10,100
I don't stand here to be
judged by no man and no woman.
660
00:46:10,135 --> 00:46:12,617
I am my own judge.
661
00:46:12,652 --> 00:46:15,065
I paid, do you hear?
662
00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:19,540
I have paid with the blood
and the mud and the madness.
663
00:46:21,460 --> 00:46:25,460
I always knew the day would
come when you would turn me away.
664
00:46:25,495 --> 00:46:28,737
I ain't turning you
away. I'm asking you.
665
00:46:28,772 --> 00:46:31,980
A bowl of soup and a bed for the night
666
00:46:32,015 --> 00:46:34,820
don't give you no rights over me.
667
00:46:37,580 --> 00:46:41,900
I've learned one thing in
this world, and it's this.
668
00:46:43,420 --> 00:46:47,300
Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
669
00:46:47,335 --> 00:46:50,180
Arthur, come back.
670
00:46:52,260 --> 00:46:53,540
Arthur...
671
00:47:07,340 --> 00:47:09,880
He won't come back here now.
672
00:47:09,915 --> 00:47:12,385
He will never come back.
673
00:47:12,420 --> 00:47:14,600
It was still the right thing to do.
674
00:47:14,635 --> 00:47:16,780
You had more courage than I did.
675
00:47:18,940 --> 00:47:21,700
I saw him out the back there.
676
00:47:21,735 --> 00:47:24,460
He had brandy. Fine brandy.
677
00:47:24,495 --> 00:47:26,625
Hiding it.
678
00:47:26,660 --> 00:47:30,585
I knew something wasn't
right, but I pushed it aside.
679
00:47:30,620 --> 00:47:35,540
I've been asking myself why I did
that. I could have challenged him.
680
00:47:35,575 --> 00:47:38,665
But he wasn't Peg Leg to me any more.
681
00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:42,305
It wasn't a thought in my
head, it was deeper than that.
682
00:47:42,340 --> 00:47:46,300
I couldn't bear the idea that Peg
Leg wasn't what he appeared to be
683
00:47:46,335 --> 00:47:50,500
because I would have lost
my precious just cause.
684
00:47:56,580 --> 00:47:58,620
Thomas, you will be late for work.
685
00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:07,505
Thomas, you DO have diligence.
686
00:48:07,540 --> 00:48:10,100
You show it in your efforts
to master the cornet.
687
00:48:10,135 --> 00:48:13,180
Your application to
your duties is sterling.
688
00:48:13,215 --> 00:48:16,077
What rewards does that bring?
689
00:48:16,112 --> 00:48:18,905
You are a success, Thomas.
690
00:48:18,940 --> 00:48:22,580
- If you have a failing, it is
that you do not see it. - Hm!
691
00:48:25,660 --> 00:48:29,545
"Mind without heart,
cleverness without goodness.
692
00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:33,820
"We may be amused by them,
but they are not substance."
693
00:48:33,855 --> 00:48:38,180
Those words...are from that book.
694
00:48:38,215 --> 00:48:40,625
I confess it.
695
00:48:40,660 --> 00:48:44,100
I happened to come upon it
in the sorting office and...
696
00:48:44,135 --> 00:48:47,265
peeked beneath its covers.
697
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:51,900
Please, Thomas, tell me what
is at the bottom of this?
698
00:48:55,180 --> 00:48:57,505
Is it not self-evident?
699
00:48:57,540 --> 00:49:00,665
A rector's daughter
might hope to find a man
700
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:03,980
who is a shining example
of position and attainment.
701
00:49:04,015 --> 00:49:06,108
She might be daily disappointed
702
00:49:06,108 --> 00:49:09,588
to find herself saddled
with a common toiler.
703
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:14,120
Oh, Thomas.
704
00:49:14,155 --> 00:49:16,105
My Thomas.
705
00:49:16,140 --> 00:49:22,500
You have "thrust" in abundance,
if only you could see it.
706
00:49:22,535 --> 00:49:27,437
"Men of character are the
conscience of society."
707
00:49:27,472 --> 00:49:32,340
I find your conscience most
attractive, Thomas Brown.
708
00:49:37,020 --> 00:49:40,600
"Though he possesses
little of the world's goods,
709
00:49:40,635 --> 00:49:44,180
"he might look down without
the slightest of envy
710
00:49:44,215 --> 00:49:47,580
"upon the man of money bags and acres."
711
00:49:53,740 --> 00:49:56,385
"Some men leave no memorial
712
00:49:56,420 --> 00:50:00,500
"but a world made
better by their lives."
713
00:50:14,540 --> 00:50:15,900
Minnie.
714
00:50:18,180 --> 00:50:23,860
You are a fine girl with a heart
worth any that I have ever known.
715
00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:29,620
Minnie, it is such a
treasure from your family.
716
00:50:31,380 --> 00:50:33,865
You must keep it.
717
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:39,340
Truly. It is yours to hold
dear for the rest of your days.
718
00:50:41,780 --> 00:50:45,780
- You and me, we're friends, aren't we?
- Yes, Alfie.
719
00:50:45,815 --> 00:50:47,300
Only friends.
720
00:50:47,335 --> 00:50:49,545
Yes.
721
00:50:49,580 --> 00:50:54,460
I wouldn't want you to get hurt
because I care for you, as a friend.
722
00:50:54,495 --> 00:50:55,740
You understand that?
723
00:50:56,900 --> 00:50:58,820
Yes.
724
00:50:59,940 --> 00:51:02,900
That's good.
725
00:51:02,935 --> 00:51:04,505
Alfie.
726
00:51:04,540 --> 00:51:07,820
I am decided to be persisterance.
727
00:51:07,855 --> 00:51:10,305
Persisterance?
728
00:51:10,340 --> 00:51:16,780
It means trying and waiting
and never giving up, I think.
729
00:51:27,210 --> 00:51:29,025
How are things with you today, Minnie?
730
00:51:31,055 --> 00:51:33,380
Industrialous.
731
00:51:43,020 --> 00:51:48,140
Candleford Chronicle...
Candleford Chronicle.
732
00:51:48,175 --> 00:51:49,865
Candleford Chronicle.
733
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:52,225
There are so many of them.
734
00:51:52,260 --> 00:51:55,780
Mr Parish seems to have stirred
half the county into action.
735
00:52:12,500 --> 00:52:15,660
Not a sound, boy, or I'll
tear your tongue right out.
736
00:52:15,695 --> 00:52:19,620
Food. Poor Old Peg Leg
needs food, understand?
737
00:52:19,655 --> 00:52:23,385
Eh, are you afraid of me, boy?
738
00:52:23,420 --> 00:52:26,700
You ought to be. Look
at me... Look at me.
739
00:52:29,740 --> 00:52:30,745
Now,
740
00:52:30,780 --> 00:52:33,945
food, you bring food
and you tell no-one
741
00:52:33,980 --> 00:52:38,700
or I'll haunt you in your
sleep, in the darkness at night.
742
00:52:38,735 --> 00:52:43,380
I will be there to haunt
your every thought. Now go!
743
00:53:02,940 --> 00:53:06,620
I realise this must feel like
a double-edged triumph, Daniel.
744
00:53:06,655 --> 00:53:08,905
I haven't slept.
745
00:53:08,940 --> 00:53:10,680
Surely, Miss Lane, if we
are to lay this to rest,
746
00:53:10,876 --> 00:53:13,311
we must know where Peg
Leg acquired so much money.
747
00:53:14,495 --> 00:53:16,500
Emma said he is on his way.
748
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:31,705
Sydney?
749
00:53:31,740 --> 00:53:33,580
Sydney, what are you doing?
750
00:53:37,540 --> 00:53:42,580
Laura, I have been trying
my best not to intrude.
751
00:53:42,615 --> 00:53:45,820
But I feel it is time I spoke out.
752
00:53:45,855 --> 00:53:48,345
The brooch.
753
00:53:48,380 --> 00:53:50,920
I think you do know why you refused it,
754
00:53:50,955 --> 00:53:53,460
and I think you have to admit that,
755
00:53:53,495 --> 00:53:56,105
at least to yourself.
756
00:53:56,140 --> 00:53:58,180
It was his grandmother's brooch.
757
00:53:58,215 --> 00:54:00,185
It means something.
758
00:54:00,220 --> 00:54:01,980
I was not expecting any of this.
759
00:54:02,015 --> 00:54:03,865
Laura...
760
00:54:03,900 --> 00:54:07,505
You thought it was a ring, didn't you?
761
00:54:07,540 --> 00:54:11,020
And it scared the living
daylights out of you.
762
00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:15,905
Oh.
763
00:54:15,940 --> 00:54:18,140
But it wasn't a ring, Laura.
764
00:54:18,175 --> 00:54:20,145
There is time.
765
00:54:20,180 --> 00:54:24,260
There is no need for you
to feel such pressure.
766
00:54:24,295 --> 00:54:25,745
You are young.
767
00:54:25,780 --> 00:54:30,940
Be young. Tell Daniel it
is young love you want.
768
00:54:32,220 --> 00:54:35,940
I don't think you even need to tell him.
769
00:54:35,975 --> 00:54:38,140
I suspect he wants the same thing.
770
00:54:42,180 --> 00:54:46,260
Arthur... Oh, Arthur.
Why did you hide away?
771
00:54:47,780 --> 00:54:51,145
I need that money, see.
772
00:54:51,180 --> 00:54:54,500
I need it in case things
should ever go bad.
773
00:54:54,535 --> 00:54:56,460
Let's get you up.
774
00:54:59,260 --> 00:55:04,020
I kept it in case the day should
ever come when I might need it.
775
00:55:04,055 --> 00:55:06,625
But you need it now.
776
00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:09,785
You needed it ten years ago.
777
00:55:09,820 --> 00:55:14,220
You could give yourself
some peace and rest.
778
00:55:14,255 --> 00:55:15,705
Oh!
779
00:55:15,740 --> 00:55:18,540
Why won't you consider settling?
780
00:55:20,060 --> 00:55:22,620
I laid there on that field...
781
00:55:24,140 --> 00:55:27,860
..listening to men die.
782
00:55:27,895 --> 00:55:31,545
Listening to their cries
783
00:55:31,580 --> 00:55:34,220
in the mud and the
blood and the madness.
784
00:55:34,255 --> 00:55:36,580
I couldn't move.
785
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:40,385
I couldn't escape.
786
00:55:40,420 --> 00:55:44,940
I cried out to a God I don't believe in
787
00:55:44,975 --> 00:55:46,540
till I had no voice left.
788
00:55:49,940 --> 00:55:52,620
No answer came.
789
00:55:54,620 --> 00:55:57,220
Just the screams of the dying men
790
00:55:57,255 --> 00:56:00,917
and all I wanted...
791
00:56:00,952 --> 00:56:04,580
was to be gone...away.
792
00:56:06,260 --> 00:56:08,825
Anywhere but here.
793
00:56:08,860 --> 00:56:12,700
If I stop still, I'll die.
794
00:56:14,020 --> 00:56:16,820
And I lived, see.
795
00:56:18,380 --> 00:56:24,420
I was carried from that field and
I come back to some sort of life.
796
00:56:28,020 --> 00:56:29,460
I still feel it.
797
00:56:33,380 --> 00:56:34,900
Move, or die.
798
00:56:37,580 --> 00:56:39,100
Be gone.
799
00:56:42,380 --> 00:56:44,625
But there has been such an outcry.
800
00:56:44,660 --> 00:56:47,060
I know that if we press the authorities,
801
00:56:47,095 --> 00:56:49,460
we could establish a
rest-home for veterans.
802
00:56:49,495 --> 00:56:52,300
Perhaps for some of the other men.
803
00:56:52,335 --> 00:56:53,900
Not for Arthur.
804
00:56:56,820 --> 00:56:59,700
He's just not the settling kind.
805
00:57:03,660 --> 00:57:07,660
'Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
806
00:57:07,695 --> 00:57:09,620
'bears all its sons away.'
807
00:57:11,980 --> 00:57:14,305
'Poor Old Peg Leg never returned.
808
00:57:14,340 --> 00:57:16,860
'Though he never escaped our memories.
809
00:57:18,380 --> 00:57:22,020
'But his life was changed by
his last visit to Lark Rise.
810
00:57:24,347 --> 00:57:26,421
'It may have been the
smallest of things.
811
00:57:28,192 --> 00:57:29,265
'But my mother always said
812
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:32,180
'it was the closest Peg
Leg ever came to settling.
813
00:57:35,140 --> 00:57:37,940
'There are those who
must go on wandering,
814
00:57:37,975 --> 00:57:40,740
'and those who find
their place in the world.
815
00:57:40,775 --> 00:57:42,985
'Miss Lane used to say
816
00:57:43,020 --> 00:57:45,580
'that the crown and
glory of life is character
817
00:57:45,615 --> 00:57:48,740
'and that cheerful
persistence pays off.'
818
00:57:59,860 --> 00:58:03,340
Timothy loved his patch. Then
why did he have to leave us?
819
00:58:03,375 --> 00:58:05,837
Timothy married and his
wife preferred London.
820
00:58:05,872 --> 00:58:08,265
Well, he married the
wrong wife, didn't he?
821
00:58:08,300 --> 00:58:12,060
- Letter? - Isn't that the
reason you're here? The play?
822
00:58:12,095 --> 00:58:14,545
There is no doctor
and there is no dragon.
823
00:58:14,580 --> 00:58:18,300
I do wonder how we can put on
something pleasing for our squire.
824
00:58:18,335 --> 00:58:20,740
MINNIE: Mr Timmins...
825
00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:25,985
- Do you miss Sir Timothy?
- I do.
826
00:58:26,020 --> 00:58:29,660
Did he ask you? Did Timothy
want you to marry him?
827
00:58:29,710 --> 00:58:34,260
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